Letters to the Editor

The U.S. government has accumulated more than $16 trillion dollars in National Debt in the 3 1/2 years that President Obama has been in office.

The national debt is now bigger than the entire U.S. Economy. Forbes Magazine reported, "Before Obama took office the debt was $9.6 trillion." During Obama's presidency it has increased by $6.4 trillion.

President Obama has not only overseen the largest debt explosion in our country's history, he has overspent us into massive debt.

As I travel throughout the 8th Congressional District, a question that I am often asked, "How much is 1 trillion dollars; can you put it into perspective."

Few of us will ever see a million dollars (all at once) in our lifetime. Even fewer will see a billion and no human in the history of the world has ever amassed a trillion dollars.

Every year of Obama's Administration, he has overspent $1 trillion dollars. That is $1 trillion on top of the stimulus 1, stimulus 2, after the bail out of hundreds of banks, GM, Chrysler, AIC, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And of course -- after Obamacare, which was forced on the American people.

So let's do the math. 1.1 trillion deficit on a 3.8 trillion dollar budget is overspending tax dollars by 40%. If you overspent your household budget by 40%, how long would your family survive?

So, back to the question, how much is 1 trillion dollars?

To pay back 1 trillion dollars (remember we are 16 trillion dollars in debt) at the rate of $1 dollar per/second around the clock. It would take 31,688 years to pay back $1 trillion dollars.

Multiple 31,688 x 16 trillion = 512,000,000 years that it will take to pay off our current debt.

Another example is that the current value of the Walmart Company is $250 billion dollars. It would take all of Walmart's worth x 64 to pay off the U.S. debt.

So, in the next few weeks ask yourself: .Are you and your family truly better off?

Pam Yoho

Bloomfield

Thank you for supporting golf league

To the Editor:

A big thank you to the following sponsors who made our Seniors Golf League banquet a success and enjoyable, and to our members and wives, who assisted us: